{"id":14962,"date":"2012-02-02T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=14962"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:56:43","slug":"foundation%e2%80%99s-gift-continues-its-legacy-with-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/02\/foundation%e2%80%99s-gift-continues-its-legacy-with-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation\u2019s gift continues its legacy with Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14963\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14963\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14963  \" title=\"A photo of Joy Rogers, chair of Brock's Advancement, Community Relations and Research committee; Angelo Ruscitti, trustee with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation; Ross MacDonald, trustee of The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation, and President Jack Lightstone holding a big cheque for $60,000\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/paperfoundation.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Joy Rogers, chair of Brock's Advancement, Community Relations and Research committee; Angelo Ruscitti, trustee with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation; Ross MacDonald, trustee of The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation, and President Jack Lightstone\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Joy Rogers, chair of Brock&#39;s Advancement, Community Relations and Research committee; Angelo Ruscitti, trustee with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation; Ross MacDonald, trustee of The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation, and President Jack Lightstone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A close bond spanning half a century has just become stronger with <a href=\"http:\/\/vaxxine.com\/actf\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation<\/a> contributing another $60,000 for improved learning at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>The latest gift, which will go toward the new <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/cairns-health-bioscience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex<\/a>, takes the foundation\u2019s ongoing support to more than $240,000, much of it to support student scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Ross MacDonald, a foundation trustee who delivered the gift to Brock this week, said the parallels between the two parties are clear to see. Ontario Paper was a 20th-century world leader in new and recycled paper technologies, which helped the company become a community builder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is what Brock will be doing at the Cairns Complex,\u201d said MacDonald, \u201ceducating students in how to put to use the latest technologies for a better community, and indeed, a better world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Petis, Vice-President of Advancement at Brock, said that in supporting education, \u201cour close friends at the foundation continue to play a critical role in helping develop the community\u2019s next generation of leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Brock and the foundation\u2019s parent company predates the University\u2019s opening in 1964. Arthur Schmon, then president of Ontario Paper, headed up the community-based Brock University Founders Committee, which raised money and found a site for Niagara\u2019s new university campus.  The main tower building at Brock is named for him.<\/p>\n<p>Another Brock founder was Ontario Paper scientist Charles Sankey, who would serve as the University\u2019s chancellor from 1969 to 1974.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe University has benefited enormously from its shared history with Ontario Paper and the foundation,\u201d said Petis. \u201cWe look forward to the relationship stretching far into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14964\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14964\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14964 \" title=\"Angelo Ruscitti, trustee with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation; Melanie Denis, The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation scholar in entrepreneurship; Ross MacDonald, trustee of The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation and President Jack Lightstone hold a big cheque for $60,000\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/papercompany2.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Angelo Ruscitti; Melanie Denis, The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation scholar in entrepreneurship; Ross MacDonald; Jack Lightstone\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Angelo Ruscitti; Melanie Denis, The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation scholar in entrepreneurship; Ross MacDonald; Jack Lightstone<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close bond spanning half a century has just become stronger with The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation contributing another $60,000 for improved learning at Brock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14966,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions\/14966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}